Another Smear Added to the Hall of Shame
Every now and then medical negligence and noncompliance reports rears its ugly face causing traumatic
repercussions that shakes the basic foundations of any
establishment.
This time it has resurfaced again.
The...
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Another Smear Added to the Hall of Shame
Every now and then medical negligence and noncompliance reports rears its ugly face causing traumatic
repercussions that shakes the basic foundations of any
establishment.
This time it has resurfaced again.
The
victim is Health Net, a health insurance company that has been penalized with a massive
amount of $250,000 for compromising with patients’ personal health information due to a
missing drive.
This incident adds to the rising number of breaches and totals to 256 incidents affecting 10.
2
million patients.
It is also the first one to be marked in history as a HIPAA civil lawsuit filed by a
state attorney general enabled by the HITECH Act.
This is the second time that Health Net has
been charged with breach of personal health information.
It is a bewildering to note that the institutions associated with the medical profession, fail to
understand the emphasis on enforcements to control the physical security parameters, the
existing polic
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